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From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Subject: Re: [PATCHSET v3.1 0/7] data integrity: Stabilize pages during writeback for various fses
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Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 01:29:28 +0900
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Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> writes:

> On Wed 11-05-11 00:24:58, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
>> Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> writes:
>> 
>> >> Isn't it reallocated blocks too, and metadata too?
>> >   Reallocated blocks - not really. For a block to be freed it cannot be
>> > under writeback and when it's freed no writeback is started.
>> 
>> Sure for data -> data reallocated case. metadata -> data/metadata is
>> still there.
>   Unless you properly use bforget() (which you should I think). But I have
> not really checked this in detail for a while.

bforget() doesn't wait IO, right?
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OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>

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